Refrigerator.



s. KLEIN.

REFRIGERATOB.

APPLICATION FILED APR. T0. |916.

Patented Feb. 20,1917.

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A. S. KLEIN.

REFRIGERATOR.

APPLICATION msu APR. lo. 191s.

Patented Feb. 20, 1917.

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AnoLrr-r s. KLEIN, or LEVELAND, OHIO.

BEFRIGERATOR.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ADoLrrr S. KLEIN, a citizenl of the United States Vof America, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerators; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the saine.

This invention relates to improvements in refrigerators designed for use by vendere of perishable provisions. I

One object of this invention is to prow vide simple and efficient means for controlling the supply of cold air to the proiisionchamber.

Another object is to render a refrigerator of the character indicated simple and durable in construction.

With these objects in view, and to the end of attaining any other advantage hereinafter appearing, this invention consists in certain features of construction, and combinations and relative arrangement of parts, hereinafter described in this specification, pointed out in the claim, and illustrated'in the accompanying drawings.

In said drawings, Figure l is a vertical section of a refrigerator embodying my invention. tig. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a sectional view corresponding with F ig. V2, except that in Fig. 3 the cold-air-deilectors are shown swungagainst the provision-supporting bars of the refrigerator. Fig. 4- isa substantially horizontal section taken at the upper longitudinal edges of said defiectors and next above the hereinbefore mentioned drip-pans. Fig. 5 is a vertical section on line 5 5, Fig. Q. Figs. 2, 3, l and 5 are drawn on a larger scale than Fig. l, and portions are broken away in the drawings to reduce their size.

My improved refrigerator is constructed internally in any approved manner to forni an ieeechamber A within the upper portion of the refrigerator (seeFigs. l and 2) and to form a provision-chamber B below the ice-chamber and also vto form passageways C (see Fig. llfor conducting air from the upper ends of the outer portions of the provision-chamber to the upper portion of the ice-chamber.

Two suitably supported drip -pans D, which are arranged over opposite side porlongitudinally of the troughs zZ.

Specification of Letters Patent. Pgbtntd F915, 210, 192117 Application filed April 10, 1916. Serial No. 90,079.

tions respectively of the vprovision-chamber and positioned to receivewatendripping from opposite side portions of the ice-chainber, slope downwardly toward each other.

Under the central portion of the ice-chamber are sloping sections Il arranged to drain nf'ater received thereby from the ice-chamber to the drip-pans I), and at the bottom of the ice-chamber overthe drip-pans D and sloping sections E are provided racks (Si for supporting ice to be supplied to the icechamber through a suitably applied door Il shown in Fig.` Y Each drip-pan I) terminates at its lower end ina substantially horizontally arranged trough (Z which extends fom side to Side. and is rigid with said pan and spaced from the trough of the other drip-pan.

The refrigerator provided at one end of the provision-chamber with a doorway G shown in dotted lines, Fig. 4, and engaged by a suitably applied door b at which prorvisions are taken into and out of said chamber, and at the other end of the provision-chambers is provided a substantially horizontally arranged trough I into which drain-pipes 7, with which the troughs Z are provided, discharge, and a drain-pipe 8 is arranged to conduct' water from the trough I.

Two suitably supported bars K, adapted for use in supportimq` provisions within the provision-chamber, are arranged substantiallv horizontally in proximity to and extend The troughs (Z and the bars K are substantially parallel. llassageways Il, which are in communication with the ice-chamber, extend from over the drip-pans D to the bars K and are arranged to conduct cold air from the lower end of the ice-*chamber to the provision-chamber and discharge downwardly at said bars into the prevision-chamber substantially eentrall'v between opposite side walls of the pInvision-chamber. Preferably the bars K are spaced laterally andv arranged `at opposite sides respectively of the upper end of the central portion of the .provision-chamberrlwo laterally outwardly and downwardly facing imperforate deflector-forming seetions M are ar anged between the discharging ends of the lastanentioned passageways L and extend longitudinally of the bars K, andthe defiectors M converge downwardly and are hinged at their upper longitudinal edges, as at m, to stationary bars 10 and arranged to swing in a vertical plane upon being rendered free to swing and removably securedtogether at their lower longitudinal edges as will hereinafter appear.

Preferably each deflector M (see Figs. 2 and 4c) is provided' at its outer side in proximity to its lower longitudinal edge with eyes 12 spaced longitudinally of said deflector and engaged by hooks 13 pivotally connected to the other deliector at the outer ysid-e of and in proximity tothe lower' longitudinal edgeV of the last-mentioned deflector and disengageable from said eyes.

At the outerside of each bar K is arranged a suitably supported substantially horizontal joi'st l? which extends longitudinally of said bar which is'supported in any approved manner from said joist. Said joist isrprovided at its top and outer side with a 'rabbet 141- which extends longitudinally and from end to end of the joist,and the adjacent troughd is arranged within and seated on the bottom and extends longitudinally of said rabbet. At the outer side of and parallel with said oist P is a joist Q which is supported in any approved manner and extends above the bottom and longitudinally 'of the said rabbet, vand. consequently the in- In Figs. 1, 2 and 4L are shown hooks R- .iremovably mounted on the barsK and instrumental -in suspending provisions from said bar. 1 Y i The deflectors M are preferably arranged as low at their lower longitudinal edges as the upper edges of thek bars K so that the `passageY of cold air downwardlyinto the provision-chamber at said bars is insured.

l ln dotted lines Fig. 2 the deflectors M are shown detached from each other and hanging contiguously to the hooks R.

VWhen the `hooks R have been removed from the lbars K, the vdeflectors M are free to vbeswung laterally against said bars, and Fig. 3v shows said deflectors thus swung and thereby vclosing the discharging ends ofthe Copies of this patent may be obtained for cold-air-conducting passageways L as required to conserve any ice which may be in the ice-chamber after removing all provisions from the provision-chamber.

I would here remark that the deiectors M are adequately held in their extreme outwardly swung position shown in Fig. 3 by placing the hooks 13 of said sections in engagement with eyes 16 with which the joists Q are provided, as shown in Fig. 3.

By the construction hereinbefore described it will? be observed that the drip-pans and the connected troughs can be conveniently kept in a clean condition, that said troughs are adequately and inexpensively supported, that the cold-air-conducting passageways are caused to discharge vertically downwardly at the hooks R when the deiiectors K are in a vertically hanging position as shown in dotted lines Fig. 2, and that in said position of said deflectors and in their normal position shown in Figs. 1 and 1, and in solid lines Fig. 2 substantially all cold air supplied to the provision-chamber is discharged downwardly into said chamber between the bars K.

lVhat I claim is ln a refrigerator, an ice-chamber, a provision-chamber below the ice-chamber, passageways for conducting air from the upper ends of the outer portions of the provisionchamher to the upper portion ofthe icechamber, means for conducting 0H water dripping from the ice-chamber, means at opposite sides respectively of the upper end of the central portion of the provison-chamber for supporting provisions, passageways arranged to conduct cold air from the icechamber and discharging at said provisionsupporting means into the provision-chamber, and two laterally and downwardly facing deliectors arranged between the discharging ends of the last-mentioned passageways and converging dmvnwardly and being hinged. at their upper longitudinal edges and arranged to swing laterally in a vertical plane upon being rendered free to swing and detachably connected together at their lower longitudinal edges.

In testimony whereof, I sign the foregoing specification, in the presence of two witn esses.

ADOLPH S. KLEIN.

lVitnesses B. C. BROWN, Earn. W. KRYZ.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

